United Nations Security Council urges Libya rivals to finalize post-Disaster election laws
Rival parties in Libya must mobilize through dialogue to finalize electoral laws and enable presidential and parliamentary elections to take place, a senior United Nations official told the 15-member organ today, in his first briefing since devastating floods caused widespread death and destruction in the north-east.
Abdoulaye Bathily, the Secretary-General's Special Representative for Libya and Head of the United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL), said that Storm Daniel resulted in an "unprecedented tragedy" when it struck on 10 September, causing two dams near Derna to fail. UN agencies and international partners were on the ground within hours, with humanitarian aid reaching 146,000 people. While the disaster prompted solidarity and unified action at an institutional level, it also revealed severe governance deficits, including the lack of maintenance of dam systems, he said, calling for a unified national platform to be set up to assess the damage and undertake reconstruction efforts.
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